[24], 144, 276, [36], 84, [12] pp. Historiated woodcuts surrounding title; woodcut head and tailpieces and initials. (12mo) 5¼x2¾, lacking covers, spine present.

Isaac Barrow's copy, with his ownership inscription at bottom of final page, "Dr. Isaac Barrow, purch. 1 sh. 5 d., 1651 May 23." Isaac Barrow, 1630-1677, an English divine, scholar and mathematician, is given minor credit for his role in the development of modern calculus, but greater credit is undoubtedly due for his development of Sir Isaac Newton. The latter was his student at Cambridge from 1663 to 1669, during which year Barrow resigned the Lucasian chair at the university in favor of Newton, the student having eclipsed the master. The present copy of the book, well used, has rubberstamps "Bibliotheca Puseiana Oxon" to the flyleaves. There is a later engraved portrait of Tasso mounted on the front flyleaf verso.